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Tag Archives: 1930s
Hooray for Love (1935) Walter Lang, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Bill Robinson
Young would-be producer Doug Tyler meets singer Pat Thatcher twice, and makes the wrong impression both times. Read More »
Rumba (1935) Marion Gering, George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman
A bored society girl sets her sights on a dancer in a Broadway show. Read More »
Blockade (1938) William Dieterle, Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Read More »
Devil Dogs of the Air (1935) Lloyd Bacon, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Margaret Lindsay
This movie follows an arrogant undisciplined stunt pilot (James Cagney) as he enters the Marines and becomes a disciplined pilot. Read More »
Bulldog Jack (1935) Walter Forde, Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson
Bulldog Drummond is injured when his sabotaged car crashes and Jack Pennington agrees to masquerade as the sleuth. Read More »
Swanee River (1939) Sidney Lanfield, Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson
More fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster. Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South Read More »
The Iron Duke (1934) Victor Saville, George Arliss, Ellaline Terriss, Gladys Cooper
Chronicling the life of Arthur Wellesley the first duke of Wellington Read More »
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936) George King, Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer
In the Nineteenth Century, in London, the barber Sweeney Todd invites lonely Read More »
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) Roy Del Ruth, Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work. Read More »